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 1 Prop1  (37)|                        The German Empire was regarded during the
 2 Prop1  (37)|         continuation of the Roman Empire. (See below, p. 153.) The
 3 Prop1      |           is rightful heir to the Empire, in case of a vacancy. Who
 4 Prop1      | skillfully. How can a man rule an empire and at the same time continue
 5 Prop1      |        Yet the pope would rule an empire and continue to be pope!
 6 Prop1      |      Christ, to restore the Roman Empire to its former state. ~10.
 7 Prop3  (9) |           the accepted law of the empire, had begun in the XII Century.
 8 Prop3  (9) |        the accepted system of the empire. The attempt to apply this
 9 Prop3      |          pope took the Holy Roman Empire from the Greek Emperor18
10 Prop3      |         the bestowal of the Roman Empire. For this cause they have
11 Prop3      |         doubt that the true Roman Empire, which the writings of the
12 Prop3  (18)|       came the name of the German Empire of the Middle Ages, "the
13 Prop3  (18)|      Middle Ages, "the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation." The
14 Prop3  (18)|     subject see BRYCE, Holy Roman Empire, 2d ed. (1904), and literature
15 Prop3      |       especially when the Turkish Empire arose almost a thousand
16 Prop3      |           viz., to rob him of his empire and his title and turn it
17 Prop3      |      bring the power of the Roman Empire under his control and give
18 Prop3      |       there is now a second Roman Empire, which the pope has built
19 Prop3      |     puffed up because a new Roman Empire is bestowed on us; for in
20 Prop3      |         true emperor of his Roman Empire, or of its name, and gave
21 Prop3      |        wickedness to give such an empire to the German nation, and
22 Prop3      |           fall of the first Roman Empire, to set up another, which
23 Prop3      |           paid too dearly for our empire, with incalculable bloodshed,
24 Prop3      |           We have the name of the empire, but the pope has our wealth,
25 Prop3  (20)|       chronology. By the "Turkish Empire" he means the Mohammed power. ~
26 Prop3      |      emperors. ~Because then, the empire has been given us without
27 Prop3      |       matters not to Him where an empire comes from; it is His will
28 Prop3      |           Babylon also seized his empire by robbery and force; yet
29 Prop3      |          is it His will that this empire be ruled by the Christian
30 Prop3      |        the bestowal of this Roman Empire. First, because they did
31 Prop3      |           and lawlessly took this empire, a thing which he had no
32 Prop3      |  intention was not to give us the empire, but to get it for myself,
33 Prop3      |         title and insignia of the empire, but the pope has its treasures,
34 Prop3      |           tyrants has tossed this empire into our lap, and charged
35 Prop3      |       they have bestowed on us an empire. So be it, then! If it is
36 Prop3      |         which he has got from the empire; let him free our land from
37 Prop3      |            body and soul; let the empire be what an empire should
38 Prop3      |         let the empire be what an empire should be, and let his words
39 Prop3      |      temporal authorities, or the empire, simply because he crowns